Education

B.A. Grinnell College 1976M.A. University of Michigan 1980Ph.D. University of Massachusetts-Amherst 1996

Bio

After completing my MA at the University in Michigan, I left the academic world and worked for 8 years as a community organizer in Southwest Chicago. After completing my PhD at the University of Massachusetts, from 1996-2004, I taught at Temple University in Philadelphia. I also co-founded the Indiana chapter of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange program, a national and international model for prison education involving bringing college students into carceral institutions where they take classes alongside incarcerated students.

Academic Interests

Urban anthropology, service learning and ethnographic methods, social movements, anthropology of policy, anthropology of contemporary Europe and North America; the impact of incaceration and re-entry.